Show THE HIPPO A JOKER keeps a gotham keeper who acci acel dentally fell into his tank a prisoner 6 new now york keeper richard rich arda ards who with keeper thuman has charee charge of the elephant house in the bronx zoo came to the conclusion the other jay day that a hippopotamus may anil anti sometimes does have a ear sar ionic sense of humor defore before that he thought that hippopotami mi simply had hail stubbornness and like I 1 hay rote pete the bronx zoo hippopotamus has a flop well lighte 1 steam heated up to date room in the new elephant house with no end ol 01 refined surroundings roun dings and all conveniences one of these Is a six foot tank pete was in his room wednesday at 2 p V tn chewing hay bay keeper richard richards thought it was a good time to cipan clean I 1 otea otes tank in the doing of which he fell into the water the water mater was as not quite over his head but he lie had to walk around it on his tallest tiptoes to keep his mouth and nose above water the walls of the tank are slip slippery perr so that the only way out for richards was up the stairs pete uses lie tiptoed over them and was about to start up just then pete appeared at the top tie ile didn dian t come down the steps but stood there barring richards Illch ards exit chewing hay with an one eye closed richards if tiptoed P toed around in the tank hoping that pete would go away but butt ha dlan didn t after five or six minutes richards began to bell for help hs his pride having kept him silent up to that time keeper came to his rescue and drove pete away from the exit |